The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

For the first time, the annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism at Tufts
University will be broadcast live on the web and available to an audience beyond the Tufts
campus. Chief international correspondent for CNN and global affairs anchor of ABC News Christiane
Amanpour will be the featured speaker, discussing current world issues and changes in how
people receive their news in a live interview with Tufts alum and Co-CEO of Loews
Corporation Jonathan Tisch.

This is the third in a series of live webcasts by Made in Medford, following the appearance of His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet at Medford’s Kurukulla Center and the playing of the 125th annual Medford-Malden High School Thanksgiving Day football game. Made in Medford is dedicated to exploring new and innovative ways that local programming – including public, educational and government media – can be made available in a community. The Made in Medford website, MadeinMedford.com, and video-on-demand component are
designed to connect residents and visitors with what’s going on around Medford and show them where to find additional content and events.

WHEN: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12 p.m.

WHERE: MadeinMedford.com

OTHER: For more information on the Edward R. Murrow Forum, go to madeinmedford.com/tuftscommunity

Contact: David Lubell, Online Community Coordinator, Made in Medford
617-794-7274 or david@madeinmedford.com

We are very pleased to announce the formation of a new co-working, incubator space for this summer, Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab (CEL), located on the Morningside campus. If you are committed to entrepreneurship we encourage you to apply.

CEL will host up to 30 individuals or about 15 to 20 teams. This is a dedicated co-working environment offered free of charge to admitted entrepreneurs. It is the aim of this incubator to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across campus by providing practical resources and mentorship to burgeoning Columbia entrepreneurs who are committed to their ventures.

APPLY HERE TODAY.

Application Requirements:

• CEL applicants may apply as individuals or as formed teams. Space will only be supplied for up to three members per team.
• You must apply with at least a well-articulated business plan if not a prototype or minimal viable product.
• All teams must include at least one currently enrolled student (undergraduate or graduate) who will be returning to campus during the 2013-14 academic year.
• In addition to the one currently enrolled team member, seats in the incubator can only be offered to team members with a Columbia affiliation (i.e. student, alumnus or staff).
• The details of the program are being finalized but CEL members will be expected to meet with mentors, define and report in on milestones, work full-time on their ventures, make significant progress and offer something back to the other teams in the program.

Please visit here to apply. Applications are due Wednesday, April 24 at 5 p.m.

If you have questions, please submit to Ashley Zwick az2335@columbia.edu and Chris McGarry cm3014@columbia.edu.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism & the Weatherhead East Asian Institute present:

“China’s Environmental Movement and the Role of Investigative Journalism”
A public talk by one of China´s leading investigative journalists: Liu Jianqiang:

Friday, April 26, 2013, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m., World Room, Columbia School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway (at 116th St.)

Liu Jianqiang is Beijing Editor of Chinadialogue.net, an online, bilingual forum on environmental issues in China. Formerly a senior investigative reporter with Southern Weekend, China’s most influential investigative newspaper, he is known for his exposés of the controversial Tiger Leaping Gorge dams in southern Yunnan, genetically modified rice, and the Summer Palace Lake Reconstruction Project, all of which led to shifts in government policy. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal´s study of investigative journalism in China as well as in China Ink, the Changing Face of Chinese Journalism, and his books include Heavenly Gems - a Tibetan Legend (2009) and The Last Raft on the Jinsha River (2012).

Co-sponsored by Modern Tibetan Studies, Asia Pacific Affairs Council, SIPA Environmental Coalition. Contact: modern.tibetan.studies.program@gmail.com.

The Graduate Center of City University of New York presents The Future of Longform Journalism on March 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, Room 1201, Elebash Recital Hall).

The free event explores: what is the state of longform journalism? Are we living in its pixelated end times, or have new technologies resurrected narrative nonfiction? Join leading journalists and editors as they discuss the future of reporting and writing in the age of 140-character attention spans. Featuring David Grann, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon; Max Linsky, co-founder of Longform.org; Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet; Evan Ratliff, co-founder and editor of The Atavist; and David Samuels, contributor to The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and other publications.

The event is co-sponsored by GC Public Programs, the Writers’ Institute, and the GC Advocate. For more information, call 212-817-7132.

Dear Students,

The Columbia Turkish Students Present…….“Women and Media: Gender Equality” with guest speaker, Vuslat Dogan Sabanci.

Sabanci is…
- A Columbia Sipa Alumni
- Chairwoman of Trader Media East Limited
- Member of the International Press Institute’s Board of Directors
- CEO of Hurriyet Newspaper Publishing Co, Turkey’s Leading News Publisher
She previously worked at:
- New York Times
- Wall Street Journal

WHEN: January 28th from 7-8pm
WHERE: International Affairs Bldg. Rm 1512

Please join us for the Spring 2013 Business History Forum http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/rbml/exhibitions/bhf.html
speaker series at Columbia University, presented by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/rbml.html and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History

All events are free and open to the public but require registration at cul-events@columbia.edu.
All sessions take place in 523 butler Library from 6:30-8:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.

February 11, 2013 (Monday)
Kurt Schuler
Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Stability; Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury
“The Bretton Woods Transcripts: New Findings”
Cosponsor: Program for Economic Research, Department of Economics

March 11, 2013 (Monday)
Guy Gugliotta
Author of Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
“The Business of Building the United States Capitol”

April 11, 2013 (Wednesday)
Charles Bagli
The New York Times
“Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made”

April 16, 2013 (Tuesday)
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Professor of Economics and History, Yale University
“’Corporations are People Too’: The Strange History of Corporations and the Fourteenth Amendment

The SIPA Journal of International Affairs is accepting submissions for our spring Cordier Essay Contest. Submissions should be related to our spring issue on Latin America. The Cordier Essay contest is open to all Columbia Schools, including the School of Journalism, from which a single student will be rewarded $500 and published alongside notable Latin America scholars.

For submission guidelines and additional information click on the link below:

http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/newsevent/call-for-cordier-essays-spring-2013

EVENT: STORYLINK (rsvp required)

FOR: Writers & Directors in these graduate departments: Creative Writing, Film, Journalism, Theater.

DATE: Friday, November 30th, 9pm.

LOCATION: Dodge Hall, room 501.

WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/Storylink

RSVP / CREATIVE PROFILE FORM: http://fs9.formsite.com/soafilm/form110/index.html?1352690883802

HOST: Film Directing Professor Ramin Bahrani, http://arts.columbia.edu/film/ramin-bahrani-0

ABOUT:

STORYLINK is an exclusive networking event to link graduate students in the Creative Writing, Theater, Journalism and Film departments. This is an opportunity for writers (screenwriters, playwrights, fiction writers & journalists) and directors (theater & film) to meet and spark collaborations on story ideas that can become scripts, plays or films.

There is tremendous talent spread through multiple departments at Columbia, and we hope that this event can bring students together and foster long-lasting collaborations both within and also outside the scope of the coursework of each discipline.

By RSVP’ing in advance and filling out the RSVP/CreativeProfile Form, we will attempt to connect writers and directors who share similar interests in creative speed-dating sessions. A mixer with food and drinks will follow where dialogues can continue, and also provide a forum to meet writers and directors who you were not paired with in the creative speed-dating sessions.

Dear Students,

You are invited to learn more about research opportunities in Australia at a general information session hosted by members of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. U.S. citizens working in any academic discipline are eligible to apply; the next application period will be for 2014-2015. For a full list of eligibility requirements, see the Fulbright website.

Event Information

Australian-American Fulbright Information Session
Tuesday, October 23, 10:00-11:00 a.m. 301 Philosophy Hall
Dr. Tangerine Holt, executive director of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, and Ms. Lyndell Wilson, manager for scholarships and strategic engagement, will offer a general introduction to the program and the application process.

Please RSVP online.

Please join the Social Enterprise Club for lunch with a very special guest: Paul Binder, founder of the Big Apple Circus, CBS Class of ‘65.

Learn about Mr. Binder’s adventures in creative business and social entrepreneurship,

And how he started one of the world’s most successful circuses.

Mr. Binder plans to share his story as well as stimulate our natural creative tendencies and

encourage us to tolerate uncertainty and be excited about the possibilities in front of us.

See Mr. Binder’s full bio here: http://www.paulbindercircus.com/about.html

Thursday, September 27th: 12:30-2pm

Please RSVP here: https://columbia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0uIYdIR3QJgA5db

Dear Students:

The Earth Institute at Columbia University has assembled its 2012-2013 Student Advisory Council with two students from the Journalism School who will assist in developing student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

Jay Devineni (jrd2174@columbia.edu ) and Alexis Fitts ( acf2149@columbia.edu) have been selected as our representatives and are available if Journalism students have suggestions regarding potential speakers, panels, or other activities at the Earth Institute.

If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Jay or Alexander. Also, if you are interested in additional information on the Earth Institute, please visit the website at http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/

Brown Bag Lecture

“The Net and Chinese Narratives”
Geremie Barmé, Founding Director, Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University
Jeremy Goldkorn, Founder and Editor, Danwei.com

Tuesday, September 25
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No registration required.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, SIPA’s International Media, Advocacy and Communications concentration, and Columbia Journalism School

Harness: Creating Change with Spofford-Market

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium,
Columbia University GSAPP
#wood091912

Majora Carter, Majora Carter Group

Leading environmental activist and MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter discusses the potentials of gentrification—like forces of wind, solar, and fire—to be harnessed for public good. In particular, how to “create the economic diversity in poor communities that encourages more successful people to stay, poor people to have more hope, and newcomers to feel great about what they are contributing to,” in relation to a proposed transformation of the Bridges Juvenile Center in the Spofford Avenue Neighborhood of the South Bronx. “Concentrated poverty diminishes hope and possibility for those who can’t escape,” Carter notes. “How do we harness the power of gentrification to create better communities with more potential for everyone?

FREE EVENT

The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Presents

Ed Husain
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Al-Qaeda and the Arab Uprisings

Friday, September 7th at 4 p.m.
15th Floor, International Affairs Building
Columbia University

Co-sponsored by The Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life

This event is free and open to the public. For more information and a full schedule of events, visit http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu.

Ed Husain is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His work focuses on international threats from radicalization, extremism, and terrorism. Previously, Ed was cofounder and codirector of Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counterradicalization think tank. He also served as a language instructor at the British Council in Syria and Saudi Arabia. Formerly an activist of Jamat-e-Islami, Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), and Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in the United Kingdom, Ed has now become a strong critic of extremism and Islamism. He is the author of The Islamist (Penguin, 2007), a finalist for the George Orwell prize for political writing. His next book will be The Sufis (Penguin, forthcoming in 2012). He has been a frequent commentator for CNN, Fox, NPR, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Al-Jazeera, and publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Times, Prospect, New Statesman, and Jewish Chronicle. He also writes the blog, “The Arab Street.” Born and raised in London, Ed has a master’s degree in Middle East Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Greetings student leaders.

The Student Health Advisory Committee of Columbia Health, or SHAC, invite you to join us for a feedback session related to the Columbia Health website. SHAC’s purpose is to enhance communication between students and Columbia Health – which includes Alice! Health Promotion, Counseling and Psychological Services, Disability Services, Medical Services, and Sexual Violence Response. During this meeting we hope to gather concrete suggestions for improving the site to better support your needs.

Here are the session details:

Date: Friday, March 23

Time: 4-6pm

Location: John Jay Lounge

Students’ feedback is important in this process, and we encourage you to share this invitation with your friends.

Space is limited, and snacks and refreshments will be served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by e-mailing shac@columbia.edu

Thanks in advance and we hope to see you on March 23.

The Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID) invites you to attend our annual conference:

Saturday, March 3, 2012
11:00AM – 8:00PM
2920 Broadway. (116th and Broadway)
Jed Satow Conference Room, Lerner Hall (5th Floor)
Columbia University Morningside Campus

This year’s spring conference, “In A State Of Transition: Locating The Role Of The International Community,” focuses on the role of the international community in transitioning states, which are undergoing a process of change from authoritarian to citizen-lead governance. This is a subject under intense debate given the recent events of 2011 and current ongoing crises in the Middle East. By bringing together a host of leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners from the field of international development we wish to address a key question of inquiry: Where does the power of international actors end and national sovereignty begin? In an attempt to address this question we hope that CUPID’s 2012 conference will be a forum of lively debate and discussion around the topics of concern, such as transitional justice, gender rights and educational reform.

THE EVENT IS FREE. We welcome the general public to engage with scholars and practitioners in a multidisciplinary dialogue concerning the challenges faced by international actors, such as multilateral organizations and NGOs on this critical subject.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Benny Dembitzer, International Development Economist & Author of The Attack On World Poverty.

Panelists include:
Youssef Mahmoud, International Peace Institute.
Mary Schwoebel, US Institute of Peace.
Lisa Magarrell, International Center for Transitional Justice.
Sara Abbas. Institute of Development Studies.
Linda Bishai, US Institute of Peace.
Rebecca Wolfe, Mercy Corps.
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Please RSVP at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9642505

For more details, log onto:
http://www.cupidconference.weebly.com
http://www.facebook.com/events/293399180720305/

Special Book Event sponsored by:
SAJA, AMEJA, Columbia Journalism School, CUNY Journalism School and Women for Afghan Women

FARIBA NAWA, distinguished Afghan-American journalist and author of the
highly-acclaimed book, “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One
Womans Journey Through Afghanistan.” The book is the first to offer a
revealing look inside men’s and womens lives involved in Afghanistans
drug trade. From the farmer to the smuggler and child bride, Nawa discovers the underworld of the
multi-billion dollar narcotics industry while she revisits her own family’s
deep roots to the land. (see blurb below from Khaled Hosseini, author of “The
Kite Runner”)

Friday, Jan 6, 2012
5-6:30 pm
Columbia Journalism School
Stabile Student Center

Please join us and feel free to spread the word.

No charge; RSVP: dos.events.rsvp@gmail.com
http://bit.ly/cujnawa
#cjnawa #cuj12

You have been cordially invited to TEDx event hosted by Columbia Engineering.

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

Registration for TEDxColumbiaEngineering on November 29, 2011 is now open.

Find us on College Walk this Thursday from 11am-3pm for giveaways to early registrants, including free TEDxColumbiaEngineering T-shirts. Later on Thursday night, meet us at Pourhouse (982 Amsterdam Ave.) from 6-8pm for the official TEDx social gathering.

Register now before it’s too late!

Register for all three sessions.
Register for individual sessions.

You have been invited to the SIPA Columbia Dual Degree Information Session

When: Friday, November 11th, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 pm.
Where: International Affairs Building, Room 1510

Please come to this information session if you are a first-year MPA or MIA student interested in pursuing a dual degree from the following Columbia schools - Business, Law, Social Work, Public Health, Journalism, Architecture/Urban Planning, GSAS for QMSS - OR if you are currently a first year student at any of these schools and want to explore doing an MIA/MPA at SIPA.

Please email Leah Gunn Barrett - leahgunn.barrett@sipa.columbia.edu – for more information

J-Schoolers,

The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and the United Nations Alliance for Civilizations Cordially Invites You to:

Workshops on Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism: Strategies for promoting rights through dialogue across religions and cultures

When: Thursday, November 10th, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. & Friday, November 11th, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where: Lindsay Rogers Room, 707 International Affairs Building, Columbia University

The Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University cordially invites you to the second conference in the series on Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism. This workshop, on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 10 and Nov. 11, will focus on strategies for promoting rights through persuasion and dialogue across cultural and religious divides. Presenters include representatives from the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch, and International Crisis Group as well as London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, the University of Massachusetts, NYU and Berkeley.

This workshop examines the process of articulating a pragmatic tactical position in fostering a discourse of human rights by asking: How assertive or confrontational should persuasive tactics be? Is it best to be open about real differences or avoid calling attention to them? Is it useful to look for least-common-denominator common ground, or is it better to have exploratory conversations where both sides grapple with issues and both are open to change? Or should all of these issues be kept tacit, so that norms change happens gradually, by insinuation and through practice? How do persuasive tactics need to be tailored to different target groups? How does dialogue within cultural or religious groups affect dialogue about rights between groups?

Presenters include: Lila Abu Lughod (Columbia), Thomas Kellogg (The Open Society Institute), Naz Modirzadeh (Harvard), Dorothy Q. Thomas, Ron Hassner (University of California-
Berkeley), Elizabeth Hurd (Northwestern), Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame), Stephen Hopgood (London- SOAS), Leslie Vinjamuri (London-SOAS), Sarah Leah Whitson (Human Rights
Watch), Liesl Gerntholtz (Human Rights Watch), Sally Merry (NYU) and Charli Carpenter (UMass-Amherst).

The Earth Institute at Columbia University has assembled its 2011-2012 Student Advisory Council with two students from the Journalism School who will assist in developing student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

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A Lecture with Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Title: From Closed Doors to Open Roads: A Journalist’s Journey
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College Campus
Cost: $20 (Barnard College and Columbia University students with ID may attend free of charge)

To Register Click Here

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in the industry. She is the author of In My Place, a memoir of the civil rights movement fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia. Her latest book is New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance.

As a global journalist, Hunter-Gault has returned to NPR as a Special Correspondent after spending six years as CNN’s Johannesburg Bureau Chief and Correspondent. Before that, she worked as NPR’s chief correspondent in Africa.

Hunter-Gault had joined NPR in 1997 after 20 years with PBS, where she worked as a national correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She began her journalism career as a reporter for The New Yorker, before working as a local news anchor for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and as the Harlem bureau chief for The New York Times.

Her numerous honors include two Emmy awards and two Peabody awards – one for her work on Apartheid’s People, a NewsHour series about South African life during apartheid, and the other for general coverage of Africa in 1998. Hunter-Gault also was the recipient of the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the American Women in Radio and Television award, the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, and a 2004 National Association of Black Journalists Award for her CNN series on Zimbabwe. She has also received awards from Amnesty International for her Human Rights reporting, especially her PBS Series, Rights and Wrongs, a human rights television magazine. In August 2005, she was inducted in the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. She is a sought after public speaker, holds more than two dozen honorary degrees, is on the board of The Committee to Protect Journalists and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Athena Center for Leadership Studies Power Talks feature today’s leaders in conversation on provocative topics of the moment. Each talk will be followed by audience Q&A. Come join the conversation.

Discussions with Professionals in
Law – Business – Non-Profit – Media - Government

Friday, April 29 - 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
The Columbia University Club of New York
15 West 43rd Street, New York City

Moderator:
Patrick Delices, Columbia SIPA and Teachers College Alumnus

Panelists to Date:
• Rene Aubry Jr., BA - School of General Studies, MBA - Columbia Business School, JD - Columbia Law School; MPA - JFK School of Government, Harvard
• Milton Allimaldi, Columbia Journalism School Alumnus; The Black Star News Owner
• Vince Morgan, Columbia SIPA Alumnus, TD Bank VP; U.S. House of Representatives Candidate
• For additional information go to Biographies of panelists

Join us for an evening of panel discussions with professionals in their respective disciplines. Following will be an informal mixer with the panelists and fellow club members.

Cost is $10 for members; $20 for non-members/guests; $5 for undergraduates. Cost includes open bar and hors d’oeuvres. Non-members may pay by credit card when they call to register.

Please contact the Program Office at events@columbiaclub.org or 212-719-0380.

This event is organized by the CUCNY Career Development Committee.

The Board of Directors of THE LUXURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION & Columbia Business School
invites you to the first

“Conversations On Luxury ”
with Burt Tansky - Chairman & former CEO of Neiman Marcus, Inc.

Interviewed by Special Guest Bridget Foley - Executive Editor,
Women’s Wear Daily

Hosted by LEF Chair Barbara Cirkva
Division President of Fashion, Watches & Fine Jewelry
CHANEL, Inc.

Date: Wednesday, March 23rd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Where: Uris Hall - 3022 B’way @ 116th Street

Interview: 6pm in room 301
Reception: 7:30pm in Lehman Lounge

RSVP required by March 21
info@luxuryeducationfoundation.org

Please join us TODAY:

Professor Carol Sanger

Presents:

“Compelling Narrative: Teenage Abortion Hearings and the Misuse of Law”

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
4:20 p.m. – 6:10 p.m.
Columbia Law School
William & June Warren Hall
Room 101
1125 Amsterdam Avenue
(115th Street and Amsterdam Avenue)

For inquiries please contact Yahaira Alonzo at 212.854.0667,
yalonz@law.columbia.edu

ITSF 5199 Politics, Education, and Conflict and The Society for International Education at
Teachers College, Columbia University invite you to an open discussion on The Role of the Media as Educator in Conflict and Humanitarian Crises with U.N. Bureau Chiefs and Correspondents
Neil MacFarquhar Margaret Besheer
The New York Times Voice of America
Talal Al-Haj Joe Lauria
Al-Arabiya News Channel The Wall Street Journal

Drawing on their vast experience covering decades of crises, from the Middle East to Wall
Street and from Sub-Sahara to Haiti, as well as U.N. politics on volatile issues, including
climate change and environmental devastation, nuclear proliferation, and the economy,
award-winning U.N. correspondents from leading U.S. and international radio, web-based,
and TV news stations and newspapers will join us for an animated discussion on the
challenges, promises, and complexities of research and reporting in conflict settings,
reflecting on ethics and responsibility, and their positioning as educators and potential
agents of change.
This session is hosted by Prof. Zakharia’s ITSF 5199 Politics, Education and Conflict in
collaboration with the Society for International Education at Teachers College, Columbia
University. The event is free and open to the public. Questions may be directed to Ms.
Sarah Sherman at sherman@tc.edu.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 | 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM | 152 Horace Mann
Teachers College, Columbia University | 525 W 120th Str | New York City
Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not
limited to sign language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of
accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals
with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212)
678-3853 V/TTY, jaech@tc.edu.

INVITIATION

Leadership on the Pathway to Sustainability

The Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, part of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, in partnership with the Spanish regional government of Navarra, presents “Leadership on the Pathway to Sustainability.” The discussion will focus on the role of the natural world and modern public/private initiatives with consideration on how efforts to conserve the natural world can work in concert with green initiatives such as renewable energy on the pathway to sustainability.

WHEN: Monday, February 15, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Reception to follow. Media check-in begins at 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library, The Rotunda
Enter at 116th Street and Broadway

WHO: Speakers include:

· Miguel Sanz Sesma, President of Navarra, Spain

· Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact

· Shahid Naeem, CERC Director of Science; Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

· Elke Weber, Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions

· Esteban Morrás Andrés, former director of Acciona Energía

· José Javier Armendáriz, director, El Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables CENER

Contact: Media who wish to attend must RSVP to Clare Oh at clare.oh@columbia.edu or 212-854-5479

For more information about the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, visit www.cerc.columbia.edu.

CUPID, Columbia University Partnership for International Development is looking for new members! We hope you consider joining us.

CUPID is a student-led organization established in 2004 across graduate schools at Columbia University to facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue, awareness, and action on international development. CUPID is officially recognized by the Interschool Governing Board.

Our first meeting, open to all graduate students, will take place January 25th at 8 pm. To find out the location and get involved please join our list serve: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupid/Join.html

CUPID sponsors forums, development dialogues, an annual conference, community development projects and many social events to provide students with the opportunity to learn about international development and actively contribute in this area. Our annual conference will be held on February 12. This year’s title is ?Health: A Universal Dialect(ic) Elections to join our Board will take place in March 2010.

For more information visit CUPID’s website, our blog and find us on Facebook:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupid/index.html

Please email asc2162@columbia.edu with any questions.

The American Language Program (ALP) offers part-time courses to broaden and improve your mastery of spoken and written English, at intermediate and advanced levels of proficiency.

Our 3-point and 6-point programs help students to develop grammatical accuracy, pronunciation skills, fluency, listening and reading comprehension, and writing ability. We also offer special fluency and pronunciation classes that meet two hours per week (enrollment is limited).

Before registering for part-time courses, new students must apply online by December 24, 2009.

View the Spring 2010 schedule online.

Advising
For guidance on course offerings and registration, please attend one of the below advising sessions. No appointment necessary.

• January 13, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 208 Lewisohn Hall, Columbia campus
• January 14, 2010, 12:00-6:00 p.m., 208 Lewisohn Hall, Columbia campus

For more information about our part-time and intensive English courses, please click here.

NEW STUDENTS

New students taking only ALP English classes and new students enrolled in Columbia degree programs who want to add an ALP class must:

1. Apply online
The application fee will be waived for students currently registered at Columbia University.

2. Take the English Placement Test online by January 8, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
This test is for placement purposes only and does not signify certification or completion of any English learning level. This is not necessary if you have already taken ALP ECT – English Certification Test.

Tuition exemption may cover the cost of these courses for Columbia University employees, but students are responsible for any fees. Please contact your departmental administrator or the benefits office to inquire about tuition exemption.

CONTINUING STUDENTS

Continuing ALP students should register by contacting in the ALP office at alp@columbia.edu by December 24, 2009. In your email, please include your full name, your UNI, and the course.

For other inquiries, please contact:

American Language Program
Columbia University
School of Continuing Education
203 Lewisohn Hall
212-854-3584
alp@columbia.edu

Dear Students (M.A. & M.S.)

The Columbia Business School plans to post their list of Spring 2010 Business School courses available for cross-registration on December 10.

The B-School web-based cross-registration system will allow you to see what’s available and to enter your cross-registration requests online, beginning December 11 at 10:00 am. The deadline for students to submit their requests is midnight, January 8. The B-School will then look at all the requests from all the schools, and let the J-School DOS office know how many seats we can have for our students in each course by January 14. We will then notify you if you will be able to have a spot in your class of interest.

It is very important that M.S. students ballot for Journalism School electives of genuine interest to guard against the possibility that you aren’t able to get into a Business School course. Please note that priority is given to M.A. Business discipline students for cross-registration spots.

Business School courses begin on Wednesday, January 20.